Industry Keywords[*note] Use Keyword Discovery's[*note] free tool to look up the top keywords in a multitude of industries, organized by category and industry. The free version provides about 10 keyword phrases, while subscribers can display up to about 1000 keyword phrases plus 12-months trends and more. Indexes at least “32 billion searches from close to 200 search engines.” [Free online tool by Trellian[*note].]

MIVA Keyword GeneratorInput your keyword ideas and you'll get a listing of relevant terms and the search numbers, similar to other tools in this list. [Tool provided by MIVA UK Ad Center, formerly provided by eSpotting.]

Overture Keywords Suggestion ToolHelpful tool to use online. Try a variety of keywords and keyword phrases to see how they rank via Overture's search engine. This is an insightful barometer for figuring out which keyword phrases to utilize for your Web site, including paid rankings. [Tool provided by Overture, part of Yahoo! Search Marketing Tools.]

Commercial Keyword Research Tools

Keyword Discovery[*note]Highly recommended keyword research tool. Available by monthly or annual subscription. You can also use the free trial subscription to try it out first before purchasing a subscription. [Online tool by Trellian[*note].]

Industry Keywords[*note] Use Keyword Discovery's[*note] free tool to look up the top keywords in a multitude of industries, organized by category and industry. The free version provides about 10 keyword phrases, while subscribers can display up to about 1000 keyword phrases plus 12-months trends and more. Indexes at least “32 billion searches from close to 200 search engines.” [Free and commercial online tool by Trellian[*note].]

WordTracker[*note]Highly recommended keyword research tool. Available via subscription by the day, the week, the month, or by the year. You can also use the free trial subscription to try it out first. [Online tool by Rivergold Associates Ltd.]

Free Keyword Analysis Tools

Keyword Density Tool This Keyword Density tool, courtesy of SEO Chat, will analyze your chosen URL and return a table of keyword density values for one, two, or three word key terms. In an attempt to mimic the function of search engines spiders, it will filter out common stop words (since these will likely be equally ignored by search engines), it will avoid filtering out stop words in the middle of a term (for example: 'designing with CSS' would get through, even though 'with' is a stop-word).

Commercial Keyword Analysis Tools

Bruce Clay Keyword Density AnalyzerPart of the SEOToolset™ offered by Bruce Clay. Browse down the page about half-way and you'll see the Keyword Density Analyzer. You can give it a free guest trial run to see what you think before purchasing a subscription. [Tools by Bruce Clay Inc.]

Current Keyword Searches (Search Engine Spies)

Some of the search engines and directories have pages that show the most current keywords and phrases being submitted in real time. Others reflect top keyword phrases by the day, week, or month. There's a variety of information available, as you'll see in the descriptions.

Ask Jeeves Take A PeekThis page has the top 50 questions being asked at Ask Jeeves, refreshed every 30 seconds.

Google Zeitgeist"Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google." This page is a good resource for Google info. It lists the following: top 10 declining queries and top 10 gaining queries for the previous week and the previous month. Also for the previous month it lists the languages used to search, country of origin, top 5 translations for anthrax, top image searches. Another chart it shows is the top browsers used for several months (several versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape, and "Other"), which is interesting to see for an overall trend over a period of time.

Metacrawler MetaSpyChoose the filtered or unfiltered listings of the live top 15-20 searches at Metacrawler. Automatically refreshes every 15 seconds.

The Lycos 50 daily ReportWith Aaron Schatz. List of the top 50 most popular search terms, and includes commentary, FAQs, and more. Quite a gold mine here!

Yahoo! Buzz IndexLists the current top 20 search terms for the week, with archives to the past several weeks. Shows declining and gaining queries, weeks on the chart, and articles about the top leaders. Additionally, there are links to other sections of information, including category top search terms (movies, music, TV, sports, and other top categories); top photos; most viewed news stories; most e-mail news stories; top overall.

Disclosure Regarding Affiliate Programs

[*note] Links thus marked are to sites for which WebsiteTips.com has signed up for an affiliate program - such as Trellian's Keyword Discovery, Wordtracker, and Aaron Wall's SEO Book.

Since WebsiteTips.com already had links to their sites anywayand because they have strong reputations for being good, worthwhile products, WebsiteTips.com's owner, editor went ahead and signed up for their affiliate programs late summer of 2007.

WebsiteTips.com had links to these sites prior to signing up for these affiliate programs.

WebsiteTips.com and its owner don't get paid anything for:

including any of the affiliate program links at WebsiteTips.com.

listing these sites at WebsiteTips.com.

anyone clicking on the affiliate program links.

WebsiteTips.com and its owner do get an affiliate payment if and only if someone signs up for the affiliate product within a short time period after visiting those sites from the links on this page.

WebsiteTips.com continues to add ONLY quality resources, regardless of the above affiliate programs that comprise only a handful of links out of our 2,500+ resources.

Like any other helpful resources, Websitetips.com continues to add new annotated resources discovered that we feel would be helpful to visitors, whether or not they are related to our very short list of affiliate programs.

Affiliate text links anywhere at WebsiteTips.com that aren't otherwise clearly noted as an ad or a sponsor are duly noted with the above [*note] link.